Mar 8, 2019
In the early 1950s, optimism surrounding the potential for
nuclear fusion in devices like the Stellarator, the pinch devices,
and the magnetic mirror were frustrated by plasma instabilities. It
turns out that you cannot treat plasmas like charged particles
whizzing around in magnetic fields - instead, the complex theory of
magnetohydrodynamics needs to be taken into account, and, as the
name suggests, it's not easy to understand!
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